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Re: Polygamy Advocate Groups Hail Judge Ruling in Utah

Originally Posted by RabidAlpaca

Why do you care if some wacky people in Utah want to marry each other? How does that even remotely effect your life?

Liberty much?

Exactly. This bears repeating.

The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected.
-GK Chesterton

Re: Polygamy Advocate Groups Hail Judge Ruling in Utah

Originally Posted by RabidAlpaca

Why do you care if some wacky people in Utah want to marry each other? How does that even remotely effect your life?

Liberty much?

Same question should be asked of all the people vehemently denying that there's any "slippery slope." There seem to be quite a few people who are all for SSM but get the willies when it comes to other arrangements.

Love, of course, is love.

It's not "tolerance" if you already approve of what you purport to "tolerate."

Re: Polygamy Advocate Groups Hail Judge Ruling in Utah

Originally Posted by MarineTpartier

I would like to say that while I did not agree with DOMA, many users on this website predicted this exact situation would happen as a result. The gay community is winning victory after victory in the same sex marriage realm. However, every action has a reaction. This, I believe, is a reaction to that. This judge really has no precedent anymore to rule against polygamy. Nor does any other Federal judge really.Polygamy advocate groups hail judge's ruling in Utah | Fox News

Unless it started a trend of judging each case on its merits then I don't see the connection with gay marriage.

Re: Polygamy Advocate Groups Hail Judge Ruling in Utah

That is an easy scenario to avoid (solve?); keep bigamy illegal - one can be in only one marriage contract at a time.

There's an even easier way. Make sure you include all details you want in the contract with your partners, because for the rest you will be told that you can solve that **** yourself.

"With me everything turns into mathematics."
"It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well."
"It is truth very certain that, when it is not in one's power to determine what is true, we ought to follow what is more probable." -- Rene Descartes

Re: Polygamy Advocate Groups Hail Judge Ruling in Utah

Originally Posted by Harshaw

Same question should be asked of all the people vehemently denying that there's any "slippery slope." There seem to be quite a few people who are all for SSM but get the willies when it comes to other arrangements.

Love, of course, is love.

Yep. That strong personal desire to have your way be the way.

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself.
Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” ― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

Re: Polygamy Advocate Groups Hail Judge Ruling in Utah

Originally Posted by MarineTpartier

I would like to say that while I did not agree with DOMA, many users on this website predicted this exact situation would happen as a result. The gay community is winning victory after victory in the same sex marriage realm. However, every action has a reaction. This, I believe, is a reaction to that. This judge really has no precedent anymore to rule against polygamy. Nor does any other Federal judge really.Polygamy advocate groups hail judge's ruling in Utah | Fox News

Personal preferences or ideas should not be regulated by government, at the same time people with funky lifestyles shouldn't shove their lifestyles down others throats in an attempt to mainstream their odd relationships...